Posted
by
samzenpus
on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:36PM
from the get-a-pet dept.

An increasing number of childless women are taking fake babies to the park, out to eat, and even hosting birthday parties for them. Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own. Now, she says she feels like a mother because she has Reborns -- dolls made to look and feel like the real thing. Women interested in this "hobby" can spend a few hundred bucks to over a thousand on the faux infants. The owner of Reborn, Lachelle Moore, offers this unintentionally chilling line, "What's so wonderful about Reborns is that, um, they're forever babies."

Idle seems to be getting stranger and stranger content. This one just made me wince, though... It was pretty much the same wince I had when I saw realdolls back in 2001. The word 'creepy' comes to mind, and I'm not talking about the fake humans.........

This story makes me see these women as just incredibly lonely and desperate for 'motherhood'. It's the same as the lonely guys that are so desperate for female companionship that they purchase realdolls.

That bad news could be good news: Women who are more socially awkward than you are also more desparate than you for companionship with the opposite sex. Plus, they're awesome in bed because of all that pent-up sexual energy.

The really bad news? Socially awkward women come with a different set of problems all their own.

If it has not puked on you, urinated on you, defecated on you, woke you up in the middle of the night and shaved off at least a decade of your youth with scary moments then its not a baby, its a doll..